As more Chinese started to emigrate to the US in 1850 due to the gold rush, many white Americans started to express their resentment towards Chinese immigrants. In 1854, George Hall was a white man who murdered a Chinese …show more content…
In 1913, a 13-year-old Mary Phagan was found dead at a factory managed by Jewish Leo Frank, the ani-Semite prosecution found Frank guilty even though they had no concrete evidence. Frank was sentenced to death penalty; nevertheless, Georgia’s governor reduced his sentence to life in prison, this outraged some of the citizens who started anti-Jewish riots. Leo Frank was lynched in 1915 when a mob took him from prison. Economic competition, religious hostility, and the fear of immigrants bringing “dangerous” political ideas propped congress to create Ellis Island (1891) to address the immigration “problem.” This place became the main processing point for all the immigrants coming to the US. It promised to select only the best of the immigrants and reject the worst through a process of medical examinations and interviews that aimed to learn their political ideologies. However, the island only had a rejection rate of